Sleigh-runner for chairs



(No Model.)

' W. MULLER.

SLEIGH RUNNER FOR CHAIRS. No. 433.535. Patented Aug. 5, 1890..

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WENDELIN MULLER, OF N EIVARK, N ElV JERSEY.

SLElGH-RUNNER FOR CHAIRS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,535, dated August5, 1890. Application filed December 28, 1889. serial No. 335,281. (Nomodel.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVENDELIN MULLER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Newark, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Sleigh Runners forChairs, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to devices used in connection withappliances used for transport-mg persons or articles over snow,

and has for its object the provision of a de vice simple inconstruction, cheap in manufacture, and efficient in practical use.

To attain the desired end myinvention consists in the construction ofparts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is atop view of an article constructed according to my invention,

and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same apwider, either preferablyintegrally extending forward in a horizontal direction, or else, asshown, having a horizontal plate I) secured to the same in such a mannerthat the entire top surface of the bow and plate shall be level, inorder to afford a bearing on which the movable lever b may be turned.The lever b is secured in a movable relation to the top of the plate I)by means of a pin 6 The rear extremity of thelever b, fulcrumed at 17 isadapted and arranged to pass oif and on the top of the chair cross-barcl when the runners are applied to the rocking-chair, (by which meansthe forward part of the runners is engaged with the front of the chain)and the forward portion of the lever b is perforated, as at 5 whichserves to receive a rope O, which orifice also preferably passes througha perforation Z), formed in the widened top I) of the bow B.

The free end of the holding-lever 1) serves in practical operation toengage with the cross bar (I of the chair D, the rockers (Z of whichenter beneath the flanged edges of the cars a a and are securely heldtherebyr By my invention the chair, which in ordinary use serves as arocker, may be trans formed at a moments notice into a comfortablesleigh by the application of my runners thereto.

Although preferably used with a rockingchair, the runners may be appliedto other objects, if desired, the necessary modifications being made, asrequired.

My runners are manufactured and sold at a loW price, are easily andquickly applied to or removed from the chair Without marring the same inany respect, and are not only of great utility, but may be made in asornamental a form as may be desired.

As it is evident that many slight changes in the construction andrelative arrangement of parts might be resorted to without departingfrom the spirit and scope of my invention, I would have it understoodthat I do not restrict myself to the particular construction andarrangement of parts shown and described, but that I reserve the rightto make such changes, and that What I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. The combination,with the rockers d of a chair and the cross-bar d, ofthe runners A A and bow B, provided, respectively, with the cars a a andmovable lever b, substantially as described.

The combination, with the rockers d of a chair, the cross-bar (Z, andwith the runners AA and bowB, provided, respectively, with the cars a aand movable lever 19', of the perforations b b and rope O, substantiallyas described.

In testimony of the foregoing specification I do hereby sign the same,in the city of Newark, county of Essex, State of New Jersey, this 18thday of October, A. D. 1889.

CHARLES A. FLIOK, J OSEPH- K. Burma

